Description changed to 'quoting David Carlisle:
"In HTML4's SGML parsing, or XML parsing, literal newlines would be normalised to space characters, explicitly... In order to get a newline into the attribute value you need to use a character reference such as
<abbr title="Hypertext &#10; Transport Protocol">HTTP</abbr>
It would help future parallel authoring of HTML and X((HT)ML if the attribute
value white space normalisation happened in both serialisations."
Related bug: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=8003'/html/wg/tracker/issues/87#2009-10-26T13:43:17Z2009-10-26T13:43:17ZMichael[tm] Smith

2009-10-26 13:43:17: Description changed to 'quoting David Carlisle:

"In HTML4's SGML parsing, or XML parsing, literal newlines would be normalised to space characters, explicitly... In order to get a newline into the attribute value you need to use a character reference such as
<abbr title="Hypertext &#10; Transport Protocol">HTTP</abbr>

It would help future parallel authoring of HTML and X((HT)ML if the attribute
value white space normalisation happened in both serialisations."

Description changed to 'quoting David Carlisle:
"In HTML4's SGML parsing, or XML parsing, literal newlines would be normalised to space characters, explicitly... In order to get a newline into the attribute value you need to use a character reference such as
<abbr title="Hypertext &#10; Transport Protocol">HTTP</abbr>
It would help future parallel authoring of HTML and X((HT)ML if the attribute
value white space normalisation happened in both serialisations."'/html/wg/tracker/issues/87#2009-10-26T13:42:42Z2009-10-26T13:42:42ZMichael[tm] Smith

2009-10-26 13:42:42: Description changed to 'quoting David Carlisle:

"In HTML4's SGML parsing, or XML parsing, literal newlines would be normalised to space characters, explicitly... In order to get a newline into the attribute value you need to use a character reference such as
<abbr title="Hypertext &#10; Transport Protocol">HTTP</abbr>

It would help future parallel authoring of HTML and X((HT)ML if the attribute
value white space normalisation happened in both serialisations."' [Michael[tm] Smith]